BILL NUMBER: SB 612	CHAPTERED  06/24/03

	CHAPTER  16
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 24, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 23, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 12, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  APRIL 28, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 21, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Oller
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Cox and Nakanishi)

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2003

   An act to add Section 21115.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 612, Oller.  Vehicles:  golf carts and low-speed vehicles:
State Highway Route 16:  crossing.
   Existing law authorizes a local authority to establish crossing
zones for use by golf carts and low-speed vehicles at any time other
than during darkness, on any street, other than a state highway, that
has a posted speed limit of 45 miles per hour or less and that is
immediately adjacent to a golf course.
   This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2006, a golf cart or a
low-speed vehicle to cross State Highway Route 16 at certain
intersections, if the crossing is controlled by an official traffic
control device and is at an angle of approximately 90 degrees to the
direction of the highway.
   The bill would authorize the Ranch Murieta Community Services
District to take any reasonable measures within its jurisdiction that
are necessary to ensure that golf carts and low-speed vehicles may
cross safely and that highway traffic is not unreasonably impeded
thereby.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 21115.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

   21115.5.  (a) A golf cart or a low-speed vehicle may cross State
Highway 16 at Murieta Drive and at Murieta South Parkway, if the
crossing is controlled by an official traffic control device and is
at an angle of approximately 90 degrees to the direction of the
highway.
   (b) The Rancho Murieta Community Services District may take any
reasonable measures within its jurisdiction that are necessary to
ensure that golf carts and low-speed vehicles may cross safely, as
authorized under this section, and that highway traffic is not
unreasonably impeded thereby.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2006, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute
that is enacted before January 1, 2006, deletes or extends that
date.
  SEC. 2.  Due to unique circumstances present within the portion of
State Highway Route 16 that is contiguous to the territory of the
Rancho Murieta Community Services District, the Legislature hereby
finds and declares that a general statute cannot be made applicable
within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
Constitution.  Therefore, the special legislation contained within
Section 1 of this act is necessarily applicable only to that portion
of highway.